Apr. 21: The Angels announced that Moran has cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Salt Lake.
Apr. 18: The Angels announced this evening they’ve selected left-hander Kenny Rosenberg onto the major league roster. Fellow southpaw Brian Moran has been designated for assignment in a corresponding move.
It’s the first major league call for the 26-year-old Rosenberg. Selected by the Rays in the eighth round of the 2016 draft out of Cal State Northridge, he spent five seasons in the Tampa Bay farm system. The 6’1″ hurler pitched his way as high as Triple-A Durham, where he tossed 30 2/3 innings across 14 relief appearances last season. Rosenberg posted a 2.35 ERA with an excellent 35% strikeout rate against the minors’ top hitters, but the Rays didn’t give him a big league look.
Tampa Bay also declined to protect Rosenberg from the minor league phase of last winter’s Rule 5 draft. The Angels selected him with the eighth pick in that process, and he impressed the front office enough this spring to put himself on the radar for a quick big league call. He has made just one appearance with Triple-A Salt Lake this season, working four innings of one-run ball with five strikeouts and two walks.
Rosenberg worked as starting pitcher up through Double-A in 2019. He spent most of last season in the bullpen but started his aforementioned lone appearance with the Bees thus far in 2022. Presumably, he’ll step into a multi-inning relief role for manager Joe Maddon, pairing with offseason signee Aaron Loup as the left-handed options in the middle innings.
Moran occupied that second lefty relief spot last week, heading to the majors eight days ago when the Halos lost José Quijada to an oblique strain. The 33-year-old made just one appearance, though, allowing four of five Rangers’ hitters he faced to reach base on Thursday. That was his first MLB appearance since he came out of the bullpen seven times between the Marlins and Blue Jays in 2020. The Angels have a week to trade Moran or place him on waivers.
Kenny or Kenny not
That is the question
i get even their AAA roster is full, but he feels like one that got away from TB.
I’m so glad he got a job after being fired from MLB Network!
*ANAHEIM ANGELS
Do you do this for Rays, Cowboys, both NY football teams….
The Angels never moved (as far as I know) but changed the name anyway. “Anaheim” gives them more of their own identity…separate from the Dodgers. We’ve all seen what living in the shadow of the Yankees has done to the Mets.
The Angels played in LA for sixty years before Brooklyn moved here and another three after they did, including the first two years at Chavez Ravine.
The more you know…
The Angels were an expansion franchise in 1961. The Dodgers moved to LA in 1958.
The Angels played at Wriggly field in 1961 and at Chavez Ravine in 62, 63, 64, 65.
They changed their name from Los Angeles Angels to the California Angels beginning in the 1966 season. And the biggest reason they didn’t move to Long Beach is Anaheim didn’t care if the Angels didn’t include the city in the name. The city felt Anaheim Stadium was enough.
The Angels took the name of the PCL Angels. The Angels were the first Los Angeles Team..
Learn something before you make lame comments.
The Angels became a franchise in August of 1960. Coincidentally that’s the year I moved to LA from Detroit.
That may be the case but the Dodgers were the first MAJOR LEAGUE team in Los Angeles.
That doesn’t erase the 60 plus years there was baseball in LA. The team was quite popular (as was the Hollywood Stars).
The Dodgers wear the original Angels logo on their hats to this day. O’Malley bought the Angels and figured he’d use the already known logo for his squad.
There’s really a great history of baseball out here prior to the NY teams moves. PCL players were paid similarly to MLB and several players spent time on each coast over their careers.
Calling the PCL a minor league is really a disservice. It was a league. It paid about the same as MLB. It was just out here and jet travel didn’t exist.
The Dodgers were the first major league team in LA. In California for that matter and on the West Coast for that matter as well. But the Angels baseball team has been part of So. Cal for over a century.
The PCL was not minor league baseball, in many cases they paid better than the bigs.
Correction: the Dodgers were one of the first two MLB teams in California.
The Dodgers were the visiting team in the first regular season MLB game played in California, at Seals Stadium (another PCL ballpark) in San Francisco.
I thought the Giants followed the Dodgers. My bad.
The Pacific coast AAA Los Angeles Angels played in Wrigley Field in Los Angeles in the 50s look it up
They didnt just take the name, they played in the same stadium and Gene Autry actually purchased the team rights back from O’Malley so they could be the Los Angeles Angels again. Many of the PCL Angels joined the MLB Angels in 1961 for the first season.
This was not an expansion franchise in the true sense, this was a change of leagues for a team with a history that goes back into the 1800’s.
And their name is literally the Angels Dodgers.
You see Los Angeles translated to English means the Angels. The LA Angels have been here since the 1800s. The PCL was a pro league where guys like Ted Williams or Joe Dimaggio came from, maybe you’ve heard of them?
I actually preferred it, when they were called the California Angels
The Angels were the 1st Professional baseball team in California known as the Los Angeles Angels from 1903-1957 under the Pacific Coast League.
Los Angeles translates to the Angels. How bout that tidbit? Four years of spanish pays off again.
CALIFORNIA ANGELS
Their real name.
It actually was “Los Angeles Angels” from the start if I’m not mistaken but, as I said, “Anaheim” gives them more of their own separate identity.
My favorite of their names, by far. The one from my childhood.
I just find it odd that people can call the Jets and Giants, who don’t even play in the state if NY their name. The Cowboys haven’t played in Dallas in decades.
But a baseball team goes back to its original name and uses the larger media market name and people flip out.
I get the name, it’s great but it’s funny cuz they’re basically The Angels Angels. Or Los Angelos Los Angelos if you translate.
I liked the California Angels. But as long as they keep the name Angels, I never cared.
Growing up in the Central Valley, I loved California Angels. I didn’t live LA or SF. I lived in California.
I lived in Glendale just a few minutes from Chavez Ravine. I saw many many Angel games in that park. When they moved to Anaheim, we stopped going. I grew up listening to Buddy Blantner and later Dick Enberg. Don Wells as well, but he was always second banana.
Honestly I’d prefer they went back to the old California uniforms but I like them being called “Los Angeles”
Buddy Blantner was one of the Royals original announcers in 1969. I don’t recall how long he was around before retiring making Denny Mathews the lead guy. Denny is still there. As far as I know, another ex Angels announcer is doing Royals games, as well – Steve Physioc. I worked with Steve’s younger brother in college and he always said Steve was going to be a baseball announcer. I thought he was full of it. Imagine my surprise when I moved back to SoCal a third time and Steve Phisioc was doing the TV broadcast with Hud Dog.
The two things that bother me about it is..
1 I think the owner is a little dishonest about the name in the lease. The city ended up giving them the naming rights to the team . But the contract did say Anahiem had to remain part of the name. This was to help the Angels because they could they could sell the naming rights. That is why they went with the LA Angels of Anahiem thing as he said LA is just part of the Team name..
2 I was born in Fullerton and have lived Anahiem and I always hate it when teams don’t use the city name they are in. Even when I was younger and went to places like Italy or Japan, When asked where in America I would tell them Anahiem. Some times I would say it’s located in California Just south of LA. In fact it used to be part of LA county at one time.
They’ll always be the California Angels
We lost a guy with upside to add Moran who is now gone after one (predictably) bad outing.
This looks like an upgrade.
Agreed… I’m happy for Kenny Rosenberg, but still don’t understand why we gave up on Kyle Tyler who pitched well and did indeed have upside.
I’m not familiar with Rosenberg, so I was hoping he was a middle infielder/utility type… heads would have exploded.
My head would have exploded. :).
That would be awesome. We would be unstoppable if we had another Duffy or Wade.
I was happy when the Angels picked Rosenberg up a couple weeks ago. Hoping he serves as another LH option out of pen. I am kinda curious what is the plan once he Quijada get back any day now. Do they send Rosenberg down or do they plan to keep 3 LHs and send someone else down? Maybe send Detmers down if he falls on his face again and move Barria to starter.
I. Not really sure why you like utility infielders. You must have loved giving away two outs with two on and no one out. Combined with a stupid manager, that’s what utility infielders do.
I don’t like Velazquez, you do. They had tying run in scoring positions then your guy came up. Not sure why you like Velazquez. No one else does.
Because he catches the ball and allows Fletcher to go back to second. There were two makeable plays last light that Mayfield didn’t make. They were huge plays. If Duffy or Wade need to pinch hit for Fletcher and or Velazquez late in the game, that’s fine with me. I don’t think Mayfield should be in the major leagues. And those two bunts were as dumb as dumb can be.
I like my middle and utility infielders to be able to play defense. Hitting is a bonus.
From I’ve heard from the Angels radio announcers, Maddon loves Velazquez. I imagine he will stay at SS and Fletch will slide back to 2B
I hope not. This is his 5th team in 5 years and for good reason. Velazquez has made nice plays, but he has a lifetime OPS+ of 42. That is not good enough at this level. This guy makes Mark Belanger look like Ty Cobb. If you you can play great defense, you can get by with a 75 OPS+, but you can’t be completely lost.. You have to have some sort of pulse at the plate.
Rosenberg was selected in the minor league portion in the rule 5 draft last winter. He has only spent like 2 weeks in the organization. Must have had pretty impressive numbers to be brought up so soon.
Ken Rosenburg aint Tommy Vercetti’s lawyer anymore?
Heh. William Fichner did a great job.
Thats crazy, I actually didn’t know he voiced him. Alex Mahone is Ken Rosenburg, damn, that’s crazy to me.
What the? Who? Awesome, had no clue the Ray’s were so stacked we were able to get this guy and they didnt want him back. Hope he pans out, basically took Kyle Tyler’s spot, which we gave up to give Moran a cup of coffee.
This is the oldest goddamn comment section in the world…
I was thinking the same thing dude
Saw ‘Angels’ in the headline and immediately figured it was about mike trout going back to the IL. He’s a fragile, weak guy in major decline (only thing he’s good at now is hitting). And he’s also not a team player. 3-5 WAR average through 2024- that’s what it will end up being. And the 5 WAR number is the least likely (most to least likely is 4 WAR, 3 WAR, then 5 WAR).
I think Trout nailed this guy’s girlfriend.
mike trout’s a fragile, weak guy in major decline who sided with pujols publicly against the team- despite pujols being a terrible presence- including screaming at the manager in front of the entire team (unbelievable) and despite the fact that pujols was a terrible player for years and years and years before they finally dropped him. And trout refused to make way for a much better CF (Marsh) this year when the Angels wanted trout to move for the good of the team. trout’s not cool anymore- the guy sucks (in addition to being a 1-dimensional, pathetic shell of the player he used to be). 3-5 WAR average- with 5 WAR being the least likely- through 2024- remember that.
But I dare you to meet him in a gym evan..
Wouldn’t want to meet mike trout in a gym because mike trout would probably dislocate both shoulders and pull both hamstrings if he tried to use an elliptical machine. Wouldn’t want to see that happen.
Trolls don’t have GF’s Mommy won’t let them in the basement.
Not a chance. He has a bf
You think this guy has a gf. You see how desperate for attention he is. No chance of him having a gf.
Evan- You do know he was having his best season last year when he got hurt? Getting a 95 mph fastball on your hand has nothing to do with being fragile. Nice try Troll. Do your home work next time Boy.
Wrong- he wasn’t having his best season. his fielding was bad (as usual), no stolen bases (as usual), and was playing at a 7 WAR pace. Then he missed 126 games on top of that. his last well rounded superstar season was 2018 and his last superstar season at all was 2019. he has been a 1 dimensional player since 2018, and he has been a pathetic shell since 2019 (by the way, he was playing at only roughly a 5 WAR rate in 2020). Only thing he’s good at now is hitting (when he’s actually on the field) and he will average 3-5 WAR (with 5 WAR being the least likely) of actual production through 2024. Beyond that is too difficult to predict in my opinion because it’s too much into the baseball future- he could easily be a 2 WAR or even lower player after 2024.
At one time the Pacific Coast League was being considered to be a 3rd league to go along with American and National Leagues.
I’m thinking the Dodgers and Giants moving to the West Coast put a end to it.
Also originally the Giants were supposed to move to LA and the Doyers to SF.